EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (BRITAIN)

Registered charity 1059464 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as E.C.M. (BRITAIN)

Providing resources - funds, people, support - for church planting in Europe

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE BY - (A) THE EVANGELISATION OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE, IRRESPECTIVE OF BACKGROUND, CREED, NATIONALITY AND CURRENT PLACE OF RESIDENCE(B) THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES THROUGHOUT EUROPE(C) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES, AND,(D) DEMONSTRATING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS

Area of benefit: EUROPE AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £102,380 for the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £380,916, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £70,000. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. Financial sustainability is managed through continued fundraising and investment, with the trustees noting that the financial situation remains strong despite rising costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kent Anderson — Director ECM Britain (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL ROBERT MCMASTERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Evelyn Helen Dent
• Deborah Jean Lyden
• Joanne Appleton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Osborne Philip Jolley
• Rev Timothy John Herbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simone Formolo-Lockyer

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Albania · Austria · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Croatia · France · Germany · Gloucestershire · Greece · Kosovo · Netherlands · Northamptonshire · Northern Ireland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (INTERNATIONAL).

• EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (INTERNATIONAL) income £506k
• EUROPEAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP income £1.3m
• CHRIST CHURCH HUNTINGDON income £186k
• THE EAST AFRICAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY income £46k
• CENTRE CHURCH income £167k
• ANGLICAN MISSION IN ENGLAND income £234k

Side by side with its peers

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